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<a name="id3426144"></a><span class="refentrytitle">Memory Allocators</span>
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<p>Memory Allocators &#8212; deprecated way to allocate chunks of memory for GList, GSList and GNode</p>
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#include &lt;glib.h&gt;


                    <a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Allocators.html#GAllocator">GAllocator</a>;
<a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Allocators.html#GAllocator">GAllocator</a>*         <a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Allocators.html#g-allocator-new">g_allocator_new</a>                     (const <a class="link" href="glib-Basic-Types.html#gchar">gchar</a> *name,
                                                         <a class="link" href="glib-Basic-Types.html#guint">guint</a> n_preallocs);
void                <a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Allocators.html#g-allocator-free">g_allocator_free</a>                    (<a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Allocators.html#GAllocator">GAllocator</a> *allocator);

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Prior to 2.10, <a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Allocators.html#GAllocator"><span class="type">GAllocator</span></a> was used as an efficient way to allocate 
small pieces of memory for use with the <a class="link" href="glib-Doubly-Linked-Lists.html#GList"><span class="type">GList</span></a>, <a class="link" href="glib-Singly-Linked-Lists.html#GSList"><span class="type">GSList</span></a> and <a class="link" href="glib-N-ary-Trees.html#GNode"><span class="type">GNode</span></a> data 
structures. Since 2.10, it has been completely replaced by the 
<a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Slices.html" title="Memory Slices">slice allocator</a> and deprecated.
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<a name="GAllocator"></a>GAllocator</h3>
<a class="indexterm" name="id3426302"></a><pre class="programlisting">typedef struct _GAllocator GAllocator;</pre>
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<p><code class="literal">GAllocator</code> is deprecated and should not be used in newly-written code.</p>
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The <span class="structname">GAllocator</span> struct contains private data. and 
should only be accessed using the following functions.
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<a name="g-allocator-new"></a>g_allocator_new ()</h3>
<a class="indexterm" name="id3426350"></a><pre class="programlisting"><a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Allocators.html#GAllocator">GAllocator</a>*         g_allocator_new                     (const <a class="link" href="glib-Basic-Types.html#gchar">gchar</a> *name,
                                                         <a class="link" href="glib-Basic-Types.html#guint">guint</a> n_preallocs);</pre>
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<p><code class="literal">g_allocator_new</code> has been deprecated since version 2.10 and should not be used in newly-written code. Use the <a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Slices.html" title="Memory Slices">slice allocator</a>
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Creates a new <a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Allocators.html#GAllocator"><span class="type">GAllocator</span></a>.
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<td><p><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>name</code></em>&#160;:</span></p></td>
<td>the name of the <a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Allocators.html#GAllocator"><span class="type">GAllocator</span></a>. This name is used to set the name of the
<a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Chunks.html#GMemChunk"><span class="type">GMemChunk</span></a> used by the <a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Allocators.html#GAllocator"><span class="type">GAllocator</span></a>, and is only used for debugging.
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<td><p><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>n_preallocs</code></em>&#160;:</span></p></td>
<td>the number of elements in each block of memory allocated.
Larger blocks mean less calls to <a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Allocation.html#g-malloc"><code class="function">g_malloc()</code></a>, but some memory may be wasted.
(GLib uses 128 elements per block by default.) The value must be between 1
and 65535.
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<td><p><span class="term"><span class="emphasis"><em>Returns</em></span>&#160;:</span></p></td>
<td>a new <a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Allocators.html#GAllocator"><span class="type">GAllocator</span></a>.
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<a name="g-allocator-free"></a>g_allocator_free ()</h3>
<a class="indexterm" name="id3426518"></a><pre class="programlisting">void                g_allocator_free                    (<a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Allocators.html#GAllocator">GAllocator</a> *allocator);</pre>
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<p><code class="literal">g_allocator_free</code> has been deprecated since version 2.10 and should not be used in newly-written code. Use the <a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Slices.html" title="Memory Slices">slice allocator</a>
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Frees all of the memory allocated by the <a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Allocators.html#GAllocator"><span class="type">GAllocator</span></a>.
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<td><p><span class="term"><em class="parameter"><code>allocator</code></em>&#160;:</span></p></td>
<td>a <a class="link" href="glib-Memory-Allocators.html#GAllocator"><span class="type">GAllocator</span></a>.
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